Portland Phoenix reporter Lance Tapley is the first to break news about a hunger strike at Maine's Supermax prison. Posted on ThePhoenix.com, the news comes soon after an inmate of Maine State Prison's solitary confinement unit committed suicide. Following two more suicide attempts and an ensuing crackdown, an undisclosed number of prisoners have refused to eat in protest of conditions. Earlier this year, Tapley won an AltWeekly Award for his coverage of abuse at the prison, and The Phoenix has covered the escalating bedlam there over the past year.
Bill Moyers' recent PBS special on environmentalism among progressive Christians seems to have roots in a progressive newspaper. "Is God Green?" aired Oct. 12, the Boise Weekly notes, nearly 10 months after it ran an article under the same title. Therein Jill Kuraitis wrote about Boise's Vineyard Christian Fellowship and their "green" pastor, Tri Robertson, who was preaching the gospel of good earth stewardship. The paper was soon fielding calls from PBS about Robertson and his faith-based conservation. During the program, Moyers talked to Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker, who gave credit where credit was due: "The Boise Weekly, which is this kind of liberal, alternative weekly, did the first story on it."
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